Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Mark, for what it's worth no one really steals D2 alloys unless you live in a real dodgy area with crackheads LOL, most of us have turfed the lock nuts and replaced them with standard non locking ones. Those keys have a habit of getting lost or they split and break, they are not something you want failing when you really need the,. Cheers, Mario

Yes, I was rotating the wheels, the lock nut split. I'm glad it happened at home and not in woop woop up by ship creek.

First thing i did to my d2 was replace the lock nuts with std nuts, no one is silly enough to steal a landrover little lone their wheels

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Mark, for what it's worth no one really steals D2 alloys unless you live in a real dodgy area with crackheads LOL, most of us have turfed the lock nuts and replaced them with standard non locking ones. Those keys have a habit of getting lost or they split and break, they are not something you want failing when you really need the,. Cheers, Mario

Mario I have kept mine safe for 16 years. But yep it did start to split. I welded it and it never caused a problem after that.

Cheers

Polished Headlights today! used a 3M kit and they came up amazing!

Forgot to get Pre pictures - but they were pretty bad LOL
M@

Washed it !

There was so much mud under/through/over, a combination of Central Australia/Flinders Ranges mud and NSW South Coast slop from two weeks ago it took $40 in coins at the car wash to clean !

Originally Posted by D2Matt

Polished Headlights today! used a 3M kit and they came up amazing!

Forgot to get Pre pictures - but they were pretty bad LOL
M@

and you bought it from where?

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Mark, for what it's worth no one really steals D2 alloys unless you live in a real dodgy area with crackheads LOL, most of us have turfed the lock nuts and replaced them with standard non locking ones. Those keys have a habit of getting lost or they split and break, they are not something you want failing when you really need the,. Cheers, Mario

However, if you left the ket to the whole car somewhere silly, I might steal IT. Of course, it would come back in a week or two, with Wombat mud on it...

Replaced Harmonic balancer, idler pulley, tensioner and tried to get all the coolant hoses done but ran out of time.

Harmonic balancer was and wasn't that hard. I broke the nut with the starter motor, which was quick and easy. My seal was leaking and I think the gunk had made it so it required a bit more than a gentle leaver to get it off. The seal wasn't cooperating either. so a painful couple of hours trying to get it all off and the new one on.

A free tip for anyone doing this. The tensioner bracket has these little locating dowels that sit loose and when you pull the bolt out and remove the bracket will fall into the tub of oil you have sitting underneath. But at least it stopped them rolling away or falling into the pit.

Tensioner is a 14mm 12 point nut for some reason. I really cant understand why they do the that.

Coolant hoses were painful. The lower little hose on the radiator was a pain to get to but if you remove the side access panel behind the wheel. I bought these which made life a whole lot easier

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these pliers which are great for those spring clips. I bought them on amazon.

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WHile I was at it, I also replaced the plastic crinkle cover over all the wiring as it was starting to breakup.